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Programme presented by Tony Francis. The effects of long term unemployment are investigated in a film report from Debi Davies in Nottingham. The Conservative MP for Broxtowe, Jim Lester, has proposed that the long term unemployed should have their benefits increased. Davies talks to single parent Ann who is seen window shopping in the city with her daughter Jocelyn. We also meet Graham who is unemployed and was recently drawn into crime. We see Graham in the entrance to the Odeon cinema in Nottingham, looking in the window of a Job Centre and visiting a day centre where he chats to other unemployed people. Jim Lester is also interviewed.
Next In a second film item comparisons are made between the 1926 General Strike and the current miners strike. In 1926 Nottinghamshire miners were the first to return to work and formed a break-away union founded by George Spencer MP. Currently the Nottinghamshire miners are working and are again considering forming a breakaway union separate from the National Union of Mineworkers. Rob Whitehouse interviews Professor Alan Griffin about the history of the 1926 strike and to retired Nottinghamshire NUM officials Cyril Dulson and Albert Martin who remember the strike. He also talks to Albert's son who is a working miner at Blidworth Colliery. We see archive film of the 1926 strike and miners (in the 1930s). We also see Cyril Dulson at Lound Hall mining museum near Retford and there is an interview with a striking miner on picket duty outside a Notts pit.
Next in the studio Reg Harcourt talks to Lady Olga Maitland, founder of the Women and Families for Defence organisation; Coventry sixth form pupil Adam Pritchard; and Coventry Labour Council leader Peter Lister about schools that are offering so called 'peace lessons' to pupils.
Finally on film Rob Whitehouse interviews Reverend Walter Evans who is a vicar at Chalford in Gloucestershire. He recently married a Russian woman in the Soviet Union. Unfortunately the Soviet authorities have not let her leave the country to settle in Britain.
Production Team: Bruce Grocott; Rob Whitehouse; Debi Davies; Mark Astaire; Polly Rock
Film Editor: Mike Crolla
Graphics: Jim Chalmers; Phill Dunn
Political Editor: Reg Harcourt
Executive Producer: Terry Johnston
Editor: Mike Warman
Director: Rob Harding
Production number 4546/84.